About Bailiwick Productions

Founded in 2022, Bailiwick Productions is a  film production company focusing on elevated television series and feature film making, founded by screenwriter and producer, Patrick Roche. Working with industry professionals and a growing network of financiers and producers, Bailiwick is hitting the ground running, with three projects in development.

Bailiwick’s inaugural production, The Diver set for wide festival release in 2023, was made in partnership with Rusticator Pictures, P3, and a stellar cast of upcoming and established SAG actors.

Patrick Roche is launching this new venture with the aim of producing a variety of new content with mass audience appeal. In September of 2022, Bailiwick Productions secured a film fund, with the aim of developing Roche’s latest script, Trophy Kids, a high concept studio comedy.

About Patrick Roche

Patrick Roche is a screenwriter, producer and commercial video content creator, living in Portland, Maine and New York City. As the founder and director of Think Tank Coworking, Patrick has won awards for entrepreneurship, civic leadership and business development. He holds a BA in film production from UMass, Amherst and when not dreaming up movie ideas or tending shop, Patrick can be found boating in Casco Bay or frequenting Portland’s fine food scene. He is also on the board of Picture Maine, a non-profit dedicated to bringing more film production to Maine through the adoption of film tax credits for the state.

About Abid Rana

Executive Producer/Financier Abid Rana is a serial entrepreneur with over two decades of television marketing, journalism and media sales. In 2022, Rana joined forces weith Bailiwick Productions as a lead investor; creating a film fund to develop original, commercially viable and critically acclaimed media.